A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907 1953) is best known for his realist view of the law and his efforts to grant Native Americans more control over their own cultural, political, and economic affairs. A second-generation Jewish American, Cohen was born in Manhattan, where he attended the College of the City of New York before receiving a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University and a law degree from Columbia University. Between 1933 and 1948 he served in the Solicitor's Office of the Department of the Interior,...
A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907 1953) is best known for his realist...
